No wireless internet connection since SP1 install
Appreciate any help!!
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Could you post the output of ipconfig /all (from a command prompt) from both the desktop and the laptop?
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Hi Bisha32601,
As this thread has been quiet for a while we will be changing the issue type to 'Comment'.
If you wish to return to this question you can go ahead and change the type back to 'Question'. Then you can edit your initial post and change the radio button at the top of the post editor window.
If the issue has been resolved, we'd love to hear your solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.
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SCVMM 2008 beta available on microsoft connect
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Just signed up - I was going to post that it was out, but you beat me to it
This is exciting news indeed!
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just a reminder : there is also a forum dedicated to SCVMM, on technet
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=489&SiteID=17
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Hi,
Thank you very much for the information shared. As this is not a post for answer, we will change this issue type from "Question" to "Comment". It will help other community members to find your knowledge sharing easier.
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Welcome to the Windows XP SP3 Forum!
This forum is provided for general discussions, technical help and feedback on Windows XP SP3, scheduled for release in the first half of 2008. Between now and release, the focus will be on the Release Candidate (RC) available from TechNet. We encourage questions or discussions around installation, deployment, usage, and hardware and application compatibility issues.
While the SP3 update is available for anyone, we want to remind you that it is pre-release software, and is time-limited, and is intended for IT professionals, developers, and other technically-inclined individuals that are comfortable using pre-release software.
The SP3 download can be found at Microsoft Download Center. More overview information on what is in SP3 can be found on the Windows XP TechCenter.
Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.
-Tony Mann
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sorry for my english. i'm not from th usa.
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Why has IE7 been left out of SP3? This should be a part of this update
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after downloading this update because my software update program said i should, i am now unable to sign on to my company website to transact business. when i try to sign on the site states that it does not recognize my user id and passcode. Just to verify, on another computer i verified everything and it worked. how do i fix this problem? Thanks for your help in advance tony
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I have Windows XP MCE SP2, chose to install SP3 and so went ahead and installed SP3. I noticed that after installing it, everytime I reboot my laptop it spikes to 100% for quite a while and at times I need to kill processes - especially WMI.
Any body else having similar issues ?
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I see that Microsoft no longer makes no mention of this SP3 being "pre-release" software on their web site. Thus it seems it should be available for the general public to down load if they are switched on enough to do it. (It is not yet part of Windows automatic update). Can anyone confirm whether it is still pre-release or not?
I have some questions and I hope that MS or someone knowledgeable can answer them:
1) I have XP with SP2 and have installed all the automatic downloads which have been offered. Is there any point in now down loading SP3? Will I just get a repeat of all the previous downloads?
2) Will I get anything new that I want or need? Or worse, will I get anything that I don't want?
3) One web site ( www soft32/download_123572.html contains the following warning: "Each hotfix needs to be installed manually". Is this true?
4) The same site also says "when downloading, you may also get additional applications bundled with the software's installer file. These third party application may represent a hazard for your computer, so you will need to carefully read the installation notes." Is this true? What are these "additional applications"?
5) I also read the following: "This download may include additional applications bundled with the software's installer file. Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings. Pay close attention to the end user license agreement and installation options." This sounds scary! Is it true?
6) Lastly they say "In conclusion: If your copy of Windows is legit and genuine, I see absolutely no reason for downloading this package." Any views from other users, or Microsoft?
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You won't see much in the way of improved functionality, buy Vista dude.
SP3 is mostly bundled security patches and hot fixed, but they did include Network Access Protection, Black Hole Router Detection, a Change to setup (no longer need to provide a MAK Key).. if your just a regular user, you won't notice much of a change...
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yes there is a change in SP3. It goes faster as i can tell and i had my desktop for 6 and a half years and it finally improved speed. My friends I had get it also agree it does on there computer.
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Hello
I just recently installed XP_SP3 v3264, The download took just about 10 minutes from Microsoft. It seems to be working OK and it seems to react a little bit quicker.
Sometimes it doe's have a slight hangup with Outlook Express in the first 5 minutes of startup but then it is OK.
Now there is a good part on this so far and that is that it is more responsive but after using Gadgets that monitor CPU and RAM use there is a difference from SP2 to SP3
CPU after 1 minute from start is 4% higher from SP2 (SP2@ 0% Idle)
RAM after 1 minute from start is 11% higher from SP2 (SP2@ 32% Idle)
Overall SP3 might just be a new configuration from SP2 but it seems that it is working OK, We need to keep in mind that the hotfix's are all almost like SP2 and that there are only about 3 or 4 new Items that may or may not be to your advantage, that depends on your unit.
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It is my guess that the last version of SP3 v3264 has left out the last IE7 update back at the end of Novenber, I had some problems too.
(A) It had problems going on to certain sights.
(B) could not go into IE settings.
I uninstalled the New SP3 and then cleared out the Internet logs including the cache, shut down and then restarted.
(1) after the computer went through the Virus/Spyware Scan.
(2) Shut Down the Virus Program.
(3) Downloaded and Ran the latest IE7.
(4) Downloaded and Ran the SP3 v3264
(5) Restarted the computer, ran my clean disk and then defragmenter.
(6) Finally turned the Windows Live OneCare (Virus, Spyware and Firewall)
It has been 3 weeks now and everthing has worked great, I did disable the SNMP services.
The Good is it reacts about 6% faster then SP2
The Bad is, It use's 8% more memory then SP2 but by all means it reacts 40% better then the New Vista that requires 3 times the resources then that of XP.
Good Luck, please keep in mind that all computers are not created equal, In regards to this unit, it is 5 years old and it has a 1.2 AMD processor with 1024 of SDRAM, the programs on this unit is Windows XP_SP3, Office XP 2002, Lexmark, Labtek, Adobe Reader, PC Optimize 2.0 and finally Windows Live OneCare, all are running good and up to date.
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That latest version was downloadable at the MS download site (10/2007). I downloaded SP3 package to my 2nd hard drive (USB hard drive volume D). Made sure all unneccessary applications were closed; reverted to Windows XP original skin and unloaded WindowBlinds, shut down TopDesk 1.53 and also shutdown Mcafee Antivirus. Started up the XP SP3rc1 upgrade file as best as I could tell it took 20 - 25 minutes to complete the upgrade - did not actually time it. Machine started up after long pause to upgrade some files; after that all was fine. I subsequently restarted all my applications including WindowBlinds, restored the skin I was using, turned back on TopDesk etc. along with Yahoo Widget engine. All seems fine with this SP3 package except for a minor hiccup with restarting from Hibernate today. Shut down machine again with hibernate feature and problem went away as best as I can tell on a subsequent attempt.
One other thing, this is Dell machine with the hidden unmarked partition removed via a fresh installation of Windows XP Sp2 recovery disk. Unmarked recovery partition was first on my hard disk and caused a previous attempt at Windows Vista Basic upgrade to fail. (2 weeks later, when I discovered that hidden partition I reformatted my drive C:.) Machine is running with several upgrades beyond manufactured base system.)
Current Machine specifications:
Dell Dimension 1100/B110
1.5gig Ram 80gb Hard drive C: USB 150gb hard drive D: 2.5gig Celeron D processor
2 opticals - CD-DVD & CD-DVDRW
Nividia GeForce 5500 PCI Video card with 256mb memory - (onboard video disabled)
Diamond Multimedia EXtreme Audio 5.1 PCI card (on board Intel AC97 sound disabled)
HP PSC1209 ALL in One printer (USB)
Special Note to Dell users: before any major upgrades to the operating system are attempted (other than Windows update site) make sure your machine is out of warranty and secondly remove Dell's hidden proprietary startup and diagnostic partition. The only way to do that is to have a Dell OEM copy of Windows XP Home or Professional recovery disk on hand and reinstall the system. You should also have good backup procedure in place. Although I can techically upgrade to Vista now with current and recent video card upgrade and other application upgrades, (either Vista Home or Premium) I am not bothering to due to the previous problems. Would rather wait until I can afford a new machine and buy Vista Home Premium preinstalled.
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I Think that the sp3 should be a security patch,becauze i have not found much interesting in sp3. as we see back sp's sp2 is having great difference as compared to sp1. Many bugs were removed. I think that microsoft should include the security somewhat like vista.it should as for administrator permission while accessing any of the restricted things.
Regarding hardware ,we can say that vista is an plug play os,as it is releasing after vista, it should support all the devices.even my devices wont support xp,i should install the drivers . about the security i must say sp3 must include bitlocker as in vista.
By the way vista is also kool,but does not support many programs that will have some problem with users but this decline the hacking rates..
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I absolutely do not think XP SP3 sholud be any kind of a patch. It makes absolutely no sence. XP SP3 does not contain any new, no of cource. This we know cause we already have installed the patches XP SP3 contains. But think it through why do we want XP SP3? Well, for starters,, how many updates are there for a clean install of XP with SP2? over 90. So think again. We Do Want This SP3 as it comes and as SP's has always arrived.
Btw, there is nothing that tells us that MS has made SP's for application and feature updates like ex: MAC OSX that does huge changes in every release.
Sidenote; why don't we discuss Vista in a vista forum instead?
/fed up forum reader
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mmresident, on 29 Dec 2007, 3:45 PM wrote:
I have Windows XP MCE SP2, chose to install SP3 and so went ahead and installed SP3. I noticed that after installing it, everytime I reboot my laptop it spikes to 100% for quite a while and at times I need to kill processes - especially WMI.
Any body else having similar issues ?
Yes, I'm having similar problems. I have recently installed the SP3 RC2 (don't know if it's the Refresh edition, how do I find out?). I had the first release installed for awhile, no visible problems. But this one seems to be more unstable.
When I log onto my computer, everything is really slow, CPU is up to 100% and I have to kill processes to get going. Mainly it's DORO USB phone (a program to connect Skype to a handset), Skype and Spybot S&D who causes these CPU boosts.
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Hello
I have just installed the Windows XP_SP3 build 3311 from the Microsoft Download Center on this unit which is very old.
This is a Gateway G6-450 that has all the original drivers and software, the only exception that it is running XP instead of Wndows 98SE, the unit only has 256 of SDRAM memory and the processor is a 450mhz, this is very low by today's standards.
The download was about 16 minutes including installation, of course I had to download IE7 again and all of it's updates.
I guess that what I am trying to say is that the bundled update is going to work I think, this makes the second computer that I have installed it on.
Now, I have tried to download the XP_SP3 build 5508 and have been unable to because of the download time involved, this is of course through Softpedia, the download from Microsoft is not yet ready.
If the download is available from Microsoft or the Download Center please guide me to it.(Please Help)
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Bandido1,
SP3 RC2 Refresh (a.k.a. build 5508) is available from Windows/Microsoft Update only, and is to validate improvements to the Windows/Microsoft Update with build 5508. You should uninstalls build 3311 from XP, installs the patch as mentioned in this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3061999&SiteID=17 to set a registry key on your XP machine, and is required for Windows/Microsoft Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for SP3 RC2 Refresh or later builds.
Regards,
Thomas
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Hello People
It sure has turned out to be a great day, I just installed the release of SP3, this I am sure happenned by accident because it is not suppose to be out for the next 2 weeks. Below are the step's that I took.
(1) I went to the Microsoft Download Center
(2) downloaded the Windows XP Release Candidate 2.exe (ONLY)
(3) Closed out the search and restarted my unit.
(4) Ran Windows Update and Buala there it was Windows SP3 Download with no build next to it.
This is just a remark and I guess I feel great because my old system is working great.
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Bandido1,
You can see the build version by using system information, under system summary --> hardware abstraction layer. There are also other ways to see the build version but I didn't want to explain further. A little search should helps you.
Regards,
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I have noticed the same exact problem with Windows XP Prof SP3. A few minutes right after booting I cannot access the internet with ie or outlook express. OE does not even load. Then after a few minutes all is normal.
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Thomas--Given that..1) the info about "official" SP3 in the forums, including...most MVP's...seems cloudy at best, and 2) the level discourse on the subject often seems higher on non-MS forums right now, but is unreliable...and 3) I've seen your name on a lot of posting that is well informed and clear. How and when will we be able to get the Beast? Even those with premium services are having very mixed results.
Anyway, even if you DON'T know, many thanks for much
quality input!
Darrel
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I have WU set notify and see it waiting to install as of yesterday. Before I elect to do so, can someone tell me WHERE CAN I FIND a list of 'what exactly is in SP3' ? I've searched/googled/etc and cannot get the info anywhere.
Will it update IE6 to IE7, OE to MSFT MAIL etc ?
If up to this point I have installed what I've wanted and elected to "NOT update" others by clicking on "do not install" during past WU sessions, will those items install oncd I elect SP3 ?
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Hi RJ!
Take a look at this ressrouce and you'll find what you request.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx
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Release notes for WinXP SP3
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929
List of fixes that are included in WinXP SP3
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480
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See KB946480.
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WinXP General newsgroup: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Via the web-interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowxp.general
Via your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480
THAT's what I needed ! I searched for an hour using different keywords and couldn't find it.
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I thionk it works great from the get go, its faster and it does work with internet explorer. and Yahoo
youhave to tweak these little things it loaded installed and booted up great
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I got an update message on my computer 2 days ago to update to SP3. Before updating my computer which has critical info on the main disk and also had the same data backed up to another internal hd on the same computer, I updated another computer on the organization with no issues.
So I then updated my computer - BIG MISTAKE. Could not reboot, moved backup disk to another computer - got error - could not read. Tried another computer - same issue. Went through the same process using the system disk as a non-system disk on 3 other computers - all XP -0 2 with SP2 and one with SP3. Got disk error and could not read.
I LOST ALL MY MISSION CRITICAL DATA. Had to go to 3 month old terciary backup to recover.
Found out that I was the victum of poor Microsoft testing. System that failed was an HP desktop with AMD processor!
No warning from Microsoft even though this was a known issue!!!!!!
I have 50 XP systems and will not buy another - will move to Unix and Mac.
You guys with all your resourses, put out a disaster and screwed me!!!! Cost to recover will exceed $10,000. And I don't expect Microsoft to do anything. I've already reformatted the disks and am working on recovering/reconstructing the data from the terciary backup. If XP SP3 is your standard, you wll go the way of Yahoo. I plan to now start using alternate application tools for office and you just lost all new system sales. Maybe 200-300 units over the next 2 years.
I will not come to this forum again if I can help it. You need not reply - and to think - Gates used to work for me as a consutant when I was VP Eng at Xerox putting basic on the 860 word processor.
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I installed SP3 and my remote desktop stopped working. Microsoft has remotely connected to my system (through another program) and after a week of 3 different techs working on it have given up and can't decide why it won't work. They have no results for me and I am at a loss now. I uninstalled and did a system restore for a month ago and it still won't work. Any suggestions?
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Have you tried a repair re-install of Windows? This article mentions how http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312368/en-us in the context of a precautionary check you should make before you start.
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I can't imagine that the techs didn't consider the following but see...
You cannot connect to a remote computer or start a remote application when you use Terminal Services Web Access or Remote Web Workspace on a Windows XP SP3-based or Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP1-based computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951607
Note the KB951607 only applies when using Terminal Services Web Access or Remote Web Workspace.
Equally puzzling is the fact that uninstalling WinXP SP3 and System Restore didn't return the functionality in WinXP SP2. What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running in the background when you installed and/or uninstalled WinXP SP3?
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Certain versions of nVidia graphics drivers (such as 175.16) prevent Remote Desktop from working. Did you by any chance also update your graphics driver at around the same time as you updated to SP3?
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Not quite sure if this post should be here, but here goes... I have SP3 installed on 14 machines & so far have not experienced any problems. However, just purchased Vista Business at the weekend & installed it on another new machine. Everything fine so far, but have found that XP machines require LLTD Responder installed for Vista to correctly place them on the map.
Vista setup ok, so downloaded Responder from MS & attempted to install on XP machines. However XP SP3 stated that it is an earlier version than that already installed & will not install, so any idea is to why it does not work?
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Sirius B,
Please see the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3360135&SiteID=17
"Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol In SP3 "
You need "WindowsXP-KB922120-v6-x86-ENU.exe"
Note the version v6. Versions 5 and earlier will not install on XP SP3. Version 6 works fine - I have used it. You might be able to persuade Microsoft Support to let you have this hotfix. Otherwise you might be able to find it on the web if you know where to look.
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Thanks for the link, rdhw. I should have checked back earlier. Just finishing last rig now. Uninstalled SP3, installed LLTD & reinstalled SP3. Everything works ok.
Will download v6 in case of any future disasters.
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| I have discovered several things about this LLTD situation.
1. the v5 version of the file will only install on SP2.
2. if you have LLTD installed before you apply SP3 the LLTD files are updated to the SP3 versions.
3. there is a v6 installer for XP SP3, but you have to request it from Microsoft.
4. if you need LLTD on XP x64 or Server 2k3 x64, get the files off a Vista x64 system and install them as noted in the link for installing the v5 package on SP2.
Spread the word. I don't understand why Microsoft is making it so difficult for people to get LLTD on XP, 32-bit & 64-bit, and server 2003. |
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why bother asking a dog for a bone he should have released long time ago
http://x3webworx3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E40FC8E37C2475AE!234.entry
thats how its done in the real world we dont wait for ms we fix it for them.
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I previously have never had my computer fail to start yet alone from a Microsoft automated update, as I fall into the most cautious user category. I do not work in a highly paid tech field and know the value of the too many bucks it costs to recover a pc. Fortunately System Restore worked as was intended.
For XP sp3 as well as Vista to have as many WIDELY KNOWN problems demonstrates Microsoft to be irresponsibly out of touch with their customer base. They are giving people who use illegal free software justification because some of the products they have recently released qualify as inferior to worthless. Therefore, they are dragging down the entire software industry.,
When microsoft contacts me personally that their products are not going to risk the integrity of my pc I will consider them a software supplier worthy of my hard-earned dollar. Until then, I will be using what scarce free-time I have to investigate other options for an OS.
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Hello Fellow XP Usrs
I would just like to put my two cents into this, while all computers and optional programs might play a big factor with any update, the final desition is up to the downloader. Yes new programs, Updates and fix's can bring there own problems to any unit.
In regards to this Windows Upgrade (XP-SP3) it doe's bring some new problems so I here but it is far better then the new program called Vista which to my concern is a hugg when it come's to resources, it uses 30% more memory, 22% more processor loading and it demands modern day hardware and special drivers just to run it.
As for me I have installed the XP-SP3 update, I did however did it from a clean install going directly from SP1 to SP3 and then run the final updates from Windows Update. the final programs installed where as follows.
Office 2007 Pro, Adobe Reader, Webroot Spysweeper, Regcure, PC Pitstop Optimize, Nero 8 and finally Windows Live Onecare.
So far it has been 4 months and so far no issues on none of my 3 old computers which 1 is a gateway 800mhz and the other 2 are homemade ECS AMD 1200 mhz processor and board.
I did however run into a problem with my friends 2.4 Dell, I did have to use the restoration CD twice and left it at that.
Guys I guess that the point is, If you feel comfortable with what you got stay with it, sometimes updates can bring issues.
If your computer is working like a charm, DO NOT UPDATE IT.
The only thing is to make sure that you have the 3 key progams installed in your computer and that is a good Virus, Spyware, and Registry Optimizer Programs.
I do however have a question in regards to this New Windows 7 which should be out by the end of the year.
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XP Sp3, what a disappointment. I had hoped for Windows Defender and IE 7 to be bundled with Sp3. I also had hopes for the newest version of Microsoft Updates, Windows Installer and Microsoft Validation. This could have been helpful for building machines and slipstreaming XP Sp3 into current installation disks.
I guess I will be waiting for WIndows 7. Vista, what a waste. Thank goodness I can still use XP for several more years.
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I see a good Anti Virus like Onecare what you have and whatever the other two I wouldnt touch with a ten foot barge pole.
There is no doubt about Vista, You need to feed it Fast and modern hardware otherwise it grinds to a stop I know that only too well since I beta test software and hardware and have some exciting new things going on ATM that wont be with consumers until 2011 in some cases.
I dont doubt you think your pc's are running well with sp3 and your special; combination of software choice, what I am saying is that you havent come across the bugs since your network is restricted to one OS environment mine however is a combination of 3 OS's XP PRO sp2, Vista with SP1 form Disk, Ubuntu, now network the whole lot together and get the shares going and tell me if SP3 is so good then... And I actually use my PC's for far more the we surfing (no gaming) and letter writting. I Have other 10 programs I cant do without...
I agree with other coments made here Microsoft is well and grossely out of touch with its userbase I guess now that their fat they dont need us anymore roll on OEM deals and that keeps MS making a bundle.... not to mention Xbox...
Alternative OS well x86 linux no fail though dont expect perfection they are all flawed and buggy... IMO there is no such thing as perfect stable OS but UBUNTU is better hands down that XP and soon Vista... Shame ADOBE and other Software developers like that dont make their software for Linux platforms also otherwise I wouldnt touch a MS OS ever. No wine is just not good enough for the softwares I use...
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Installing SCE with SP1 on Windows Server 2008
I've finished five or six of these installations recently and wanted to share my experiences and a fairly thorough guide to completing the installation in a repeatable way. Please let me know if you have any feedback.
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experience with SCE. It really can help other community to troubleshooting when encountering a similar problem in using SCE. Since this is not a question, I will convert to a comment to help other community member to find it effectively.
Thanks.
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Hi there,
Do you have instructions to install Essentials 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008 Server x64 ?
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I'm going to post the procedure for x64 this week but I want to make absolutely sure that it's bullet proof before doing so. There are two key differences that have to be dealt with when installing on x64. The first is a problem with the SQL Server Express installer for x64. You have to install the x64 edition of the SQL Server 2005 client setup tools before running the x64 installer for SQL Server 2005 Express.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/7/4/f74cbdb1-87e2-4794-9186-e3ad6bd54b41/sqlncli_x64.msi
The other issue is with how IIS is set up. I'll try to have it down solid this week.
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Microsoft has an article on the steps to uninstall SCE here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437343.aspx
The part I don really understand is the code in steps 3: SCECertPolicyConfigUtil.exe /Uninstall /ManagementGroup <Essentials management server netbios name>_MG
Do you know what this command does? Are they the same as what you have published on your site?
http://blog.exceedio.com/2008/05/15/reinstalling-system-center-essentials-2007/
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Hi,
This command can be used to remove the domain and local policy setting which are created when running configure product features wizard.
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Hi Exceedio,
Do you have the procedures yet for installing SCE on Win2008 x64?
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Problem relpying to forum when using IE 8.0 Beta 1
Roger
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I could not reply to a forum entry with IE 8 - the previously posted messages appeared and one could read everything, but the reply box was blanked out (like when you did not sign in). I had to download firefox to make this entry (note i was signed into the forum when i did this).
Roger
Roger, thanks for the report. We are working with the IE8 team to determine if this is an issue with our html/css or the rendering engine.
Id like to start a new thread but the submit, cancel and other icons do not appear on the bottom of the browser window. Only if I reply, as in this case do I have the option to Submit.
David Rogers
Thanks David, I have logged a bug for this issue. In our next version which should be out in a few weeks, the editor and the submit/cancel buttons are much different from this version so it may resolve itself. And I'll try to get a good pass on Safari/Mac to verify.
Rob J, Forums Dev
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Peace,
Peter Koszyczarek
Live Beta Butterfly
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Speed Up Browsing (Windows Explorer and IE)
1.start
2.run
3.Regedit
4.select the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace
5.In the left pane find: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} Value and delete it.
Interesting Article on XML in the database.
This is an interesting article, though I don't agree with all i'ts points. For example, working with programs like InfoPath or Word that generate xml, I find great utility in an xml column type in my databases.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/isxmltheanswer/1147/
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Also please note the date on the article 
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Windows Vista need to be like Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista need to be like windows server 2008 that uses less resources and is more better, MS need to stop add on Windows Vista, but change it completely. I use Windows Server 2008 i like it alot and NO BSOD. change the code of Windows Vista also, MS need to do like what they did with Windows Server 2003 making R2 packs or feature packs like what MS do on windows servers when they mess up on OSs and not just fixs them but upgrade them also
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go read http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/005f921e-f706-401e-abb5-eec42ea0a03e1033.mspx?mfr=true - specifically "Windows Vista Alignment with Windows Server 2008"
I've been running vista on my home pc (ultimate x64) and on my work laptop (business x32) since release and have had no problems whatsoever.
Also, if I remember correctly the underlying code base for vista and server 2k8 are the same anyway - which was the whole point of designing vista the way it is designed, so far as it's modular design (go check out the windows vista OPK for more details).
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Uninstalling SP1 RC to prepare for SP1 RTM
I don't know squat about PC's etc. I just got mine back (needed the motherboard replaced-I don't even know what that is), and now I have this going on. After reading all of the posts, should I wait till all of the bugs have been worked out? I'm not adept at uninstalling, deleting, etc and I don't want to take it back to the Dr. or ask my ex. I want to learn on my own but feel that I'm in over my head. My PC is running a lot slower since installing SP1 as it is
I'll do that. When you say Beta, does it matter that I have Vista or was that a dumb question? Regardless, I thank you very much.
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Uninstall Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
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Excel render bug?
I'm using visual studio 2005 with .NET 2.0 SP1.
Under a report server project, I created a table and used it to display a dataset drawn from a database (SQL Server 2005). And I set the "NoRows" property of this table to something like: "= "Customer: " & Parameters!CustomerID.Value & " does not exist in database.". I deployed the report on a report server, run it and exported to Excel. If there were no data returned, the Excel will display the non-exist message as designed. But if I export the same report again without re-run the report, the message will disappear. Looks like a bug?
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Did you mean reboot the client computer? That will force the report to be re-generated (according to our report server configuration), and therefore the Excel export will display fine. The problem only occues when you continue exporting the same Excel report more than once. i.e. load a report on report server -> choose "Excel" and click "export" (this time the Excel file displays correctly) -> choose "Excel" and click "export" again (this time the Excel file displays incorrectly).
I use Office 2003 on the client machine. The reporting service on the server is installed with SP2.
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Thanks!
-Chris
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using other's unsecured wireless APs
This is a subject that appears to be in wide controversy. Is connecting to someone's unsecured access point illegal?
My wireless adapter discovers many wireless networks, some of them secured, some of them unsecured. If someone were to click on one of the unsecured access points that a wireless adapter detects, is that braking a government-established law?
Has there been a law passed by the United States government prohibiting the use of unsecured wirelss access points?
If there is a law, could someone please tell me which government website I can go to to read about it?
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There is no national law (AFAIK) governing this. To the best of my knowledge, no state gov't in the US has anything covering this. It's more local ordinance / policy / interpretation / etc.
There are two schools of thought:
- open AP = public invitation to use it.
- would you just wak in thru the open front door of someone's house, uninvited?
There's also the ethical matter - are you comfortable with taking someone else's 'net connection (that you aren't paying for) for your own use, uninvited?
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The ethical perspective of the whole thing makes more sense, considering that I cannot find any shred of evidence that unsecured wireless laws have been passed.....except maybe in private busineses. Apparently, some people don't mind others using their bandwidth. On the other hand, It seems that the real question is, if someone does in fact mind, then why don't they put a freaking password on their router?
With that in mind, the ethical question must arrise from the fact the some people aren't aware that their access points are unsecured.............and if they became aware, how many of them would decide to keep their router unsecured?
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The thing is, people have been prosecuted for using someone else's unsecured AP. In some places. 'Tis a very touchy-feely subject, as you said.
And, you're right - a lot of people out there don't really know that their APs aren't secured (aside from the fact that their computer "just connected" when they selected, say, "linksys" to connect to. But, the masses don't think abou that.....)
Better setup software from the various vendors (prompting one to actually secure their wireless) would be good (and, is finally starting to happen. IIRC, Belkin is doing this now.) They might mind someone glomming their internet connection, they most likely really mind some stranger browsing their various shared folders, but they don't know how to prevent it (or, very likely, don't know that it's actually possible.)
There was a discussion on the MaxPC forums about this a little while ago on this very subject (notably, on making someone aware of their lack of wireless security.) Good stuff it was (before it got completely derailed....)
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Where have people been prosecuted for this?
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Google search
There was a case here in MI a while ago (guy fined $400); the UK does have that on their books (another country, I know; but, the point is there...)
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Hi,
Please understand that this forum deals mainly with technical issue. Regarding the legal affairs, we are not the best resource, I would like to change this issue type to 'Comment'.
Thank you for your understanding.
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Full retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3 now available in select languages, to MSDN / TechNet Plus subscribers
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages will be made available soon.
Please see the MSDN Subscriber Downloads or TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these releases. The main TechNet resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this information.
We have recently identified a compatibility issue between Windows XP SP3 and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS). Microsoft Dynamics RMS customers should not install Windows XP SP3 until a fix has been fully tested and made available. In addition, Windows XP SP3 will be available on Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center soon.
renaming computers do not change the computer account name in ADUC
When we re-name computers in our domain they do not reflect the new name in AD Users and Computers. For example, we have a computer named RIGID. We rename it to 112RIGID3. We look in AD Users and Computers under the computer accounts list and the computer still shows up as RIGID. When we double click on the computer account it does show up as 112RIGID3 under the DNS name, but under the the list of computer accounts it is RIGID still.
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Hello Ryan,
Yes, the computer account name should be renamed when the client finishes the renaming operation.
1. Please refresh the ADCU console to see whether it is updated.
2. Also check how it works when you use ADUC remotly connect to the domain on the computer that have RAST ADUC installed.
Please use LDP.exe utility to confirm the computer account attributes in the Active Directory Database.
1. In the command prompt, type "ldp" and press Enter.
2. Connect to the domain by providing the domain name and bind with the administrative credential.
3. Click View--->Tree and input the domain DN such as "DC=<domainname>,DC=com".
4. In the left tree view panel, expand the OU that contains the computer account and double-click the computer account to get the detailed attribute output.
Please verify whether the CN, distinguishedname and name attributes have been properly updated.
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New Gadget: System Center Content Search
Hey Folks,
Here's a new 'gadget' from one of our SDK writers (Chris Scoville) to help with System Center searches.
System Center Content Search
http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=49e26ad0-113d-4f3d-a711-57f6530c75d9
This gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros to search specific sites instead of the entire web. Search results are only returned from sites that are known to contain helpful information about System Center products. Use the settings in the gadget to pick the System Center product that you want to find information about, and then enter a search term in the gadget to get customized search results.
This gadget was demo'd at MMS earlier this week, so I thought I'd post a link here.
I hope you find this useful!
Jim Bradbury
Forefront without MOM
I'm a little confused regarding Forefront Client Security and its relationship with MOM - Microsoft need to understand that not all organisaions are running MOM and may not be familiair with it.
During the Forefront install process, its not at all clear from the Role Selection menu which options require MOM to be already present and which options provide basic MOM functionality for organisations that don't already have MOM installed.
For example, "Collection server role - Installs the MOM Management server".
Why would I want to install the MOM Management server it I don't already have MOM?
but, then again, if I already had MOM, wouldn't the MOM Management server already be installed?
I'm sure its my lack of understanding that is the issue, but the terminology and descriptions used during the product installation could be made a lot easy to understand. I know when you close to the product(s) being developed it seems simple and straight forward - but you need to stand back a little and see it from a different perspective.
Regards,
James.
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Hi James
Thanks for the post! Let me cover the topic of MOM and FCS in detail:
FCS uses the MOM infrastructure for event and alert gathering. We include MOM 2005 for use (only) with Forefront Client Security. A few important notes:
- If you have an existing MOM infrastrastructure, you cannot use it for FCS. Your existing MOM infrastructure and FCS's use of MOM are completely seperate
- If you do have MOM, you cannot share the One Point (Operations DB) or SystemCenterReporting (Data warehouse DB) with FCS. The two pairs of DB's must always remain seperate
- If you have an existing MOM infrastructure, you can still monitor those machines using FCS (MOM supports multi-homing the agents)
It may be easier to not think about MOM as a seperate prerequisite (like SQL), as our Server setup handles all the MOM configuration/etc details. If you already have MOM, just remember that you can't use it for FCS and if you don't have MOM, you don't have to worry about installing it, as our setup handles that for you
Hope this helps
Chris
Forefront Client Security PM
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Hello Chris,
We already have MOM 2005 in our infrastrutcture. Based on your answer to James' question, I have the following doubt:
What do have to do with our clients that already have the MOM agent in order for them to keep talking to our infraestucture MOM and to the FCS MOM?
Is there any documentation about it?
Best regards,
Victor Herrera
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Hi Victor
This is completely supported and you don't have to do anything special. The MOM agent supports the ability to be "multi-homed" - it can report the required information back to different servers. When you install the FCS client on a computer that already has a MOM agent, the MOM agent installer automatically updates it's configuration so that it points to both MOM servers (sending existing "health" data back to your current MOM infrastructure and the FCS security information back to the FCS MOM server)
Thanks
Chris
Forefront Client Security PM
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your prompt response. I tested it and it worked smoothly.
This week I found out that our MOM team is going to upgrade our infraestructure MOM 2005 to MOM 2007 so now my doubt is regarding the MOM agents, I mean if I have MOM 2007 agents what would happen when FCS tries to install its MOM agent 2005?
Best regards,
Victor Herrera
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Hi Victor
Thanks for posting - no worries though, this situation is also covered. MOM natively supports having a MOM 2007 agent sit side-by-side with a MOM 2005 agent. So your MOM team can upgrade their existing MOM infrastructure to 2007 without breaking FCS
Thanks
Chris
Forefront Client Security PM
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Hello!
Yes, FCS can protect those machines, but you will not be able to get centralized reporting (MOM uses Mutual Authentication to protection client/server communications, and that requires AD/Kerberos). You can still author and distribute policies by exporting them from the console and then importing them using FCSLocalPolicyTool.exe
Hope this helps
Chris
Forefront Client Security PM
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Can you consolidate the MOM and FCS servers into one if you had already deployed MOM?
I guess what I am trying to say could I just use the version of MOM that comes with FCS instead of running a standalone setup and another for FCS?
As long as I already have LIC's and what not for MOM 2005?
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After all, what cannot be used if I already have MOM?
Ork
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Hey,
What Chris Meant by those things is that FCS does utilize MOM as its base monitoring engine, but it does this with many changes on the MOM schema and several other properties on the MOM installation.
there for, you cannot install FCS on an exisiting MOM environment.
allthough any one who really knows MOM can do the opposite way (using the FCS mom to monitor other server), but this is not meant for that and cause server exsahustion and mess up your FCS deployment.
regarding multi-homing: if you do already have mom2005 installed and wish to deploy FCS on a monitored server, you need to manualy install the FCS client without the mom agent and then activate the momagent setup and add another monitoring server on the setup (make it multi-homed). this way it reports the FCS alerts to the FCS MOM server and the rest of the alerts to you original MOM server.
hope that covers your q's.
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How do we get the FCS console integrated with our currently installed SCE 2007 system??
We have already figured out that the Collection and Reporting roles will not be able to be installed on the SCE server but we want the ability to use the SCE console to check the status of the FCS updates.
Is this possible?
Can we run FCS setup and install the management role on the SCE server?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
TCrowell
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Hi,
At this stage it is not possible to integrate FCS & SCE. I would certainly avoid installing any FCS component onto the SCE server as it is based on MOM 2005, and it could cause some issues to your existing install
The licensing, and idea behind the product is that is a seperate, dedicated MOM instance just for forefront. There is no issue in co-existence between FCS MOM & SCE either, so they can be installed side-by-side
cheers
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Fix it microsoft!
Microsoft you have to fix this issue with wireless gaming in vista the WLAN AUTO CONFIG makes online gaming in vista impossible if you are using wireless like me im very angry on you because manmy people have told you about this issue but you still dont do anything YOU HAVE TO FIX IT ASAP OR ELSE I WILL MOVE BACK TO XP AND TELL EVERYONE THAT VISTA SUCKS FOR GAMING WHICH IT DOES ATM!
Lesson Learned : InfoPath Repeating Tables
After creating a repeating table in InfoPath, you'll notice in the Data Source that two folders are created around the fields in your repeating table. Consider the following process next time you're working with repeating tables.
1) Name the topmost folder after the pluralized name of whatever your table contains (e.g. Books).
2) Name the nested folder after the singular name of whatever your table contains (e.g. Book).
This gives you nice XML like:
<my:Books>
<my:Book>
... the book's data
</my:Book>
<my:Book>
... the book's data
</my:Book>
<my:Book>
... the book's data
</my:Book>
</my:Books>
instead of:
<my:group3>
<my:group4>
... the book's data
</my:group4>
<my:group4>
... the book's data
</my:group4>
<my:group4>
... the book's data
</my:group4>
</my:group3>
and XPath queries like:
/my:myFields/my:Books/my:Book
instead of:
/my:myFields/my:group3/my:group4
Error Code 03-00001009
I have just found a new error code that I have never seen before. A coworker here had the SFTList process die on him while loading a nearly 3gb package (he was running MS Defrag at the same time).
When he called me over to see this message of the SFT process having an error, I cleaned out his cache, and proceeded to right-click on a Softgrid-ized package icon. There were no Softgrid options (Launch or Load).
When I double-clicked on the icon, I got the error code string 03-00001009. Basically telling me it can't do anything.
If anyone can verify that this is a viable error, can it be added to the KB?
AI 1.5 shipping with SCCM 2007 SP1 in May 2008
LAS VEGAS – Microsoft Wednesday said Service Pack 1 for System Center Configuration Manager will be released in May.
Almost there :-)
Worst forums ever.
I wish I had all the time in the world to make post after post about every bug I've run into on these forums, but suffice to say- they really need an overhaul. Considering how good something like EW is at making good websites, the Expression forums make it look terrible. I really appreciate the support you guys give, but I really don't like coming to these forums.
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Hi R10k, appreciate the feedback – sorry to hear you're having a bad experience with the forums. There are a couple different issues here.
Do we support Opera? We have traditionally done our testing for this forums platform on IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox. We'll always work to fix bugs users report on any browser (there are some reported already on Opera that we're working on). In addition, we're looking at adding Opera and Safari to our testing as well. If you have specific issues that haven't already been reported on Opera in the bugs forum, please do.
Alerts don't work. Looks like we have a current thread on this, can you add details on when you're not getting alerts?
I don't have enough time to write a book on the hundreds of annoying aspects of this forum, but I can only suggest replacing these forums with your basic phbb board, because... my goodness this forum is a disaster. The forum alert doesn't work, there's no easy way to quote someone, the code editing in the postbox is absolutely terrible (sometimes it works, other times it doesn't- and that's under IE7) the forum is slow, clunky and unintuitive. Most of the time in Opera I can only see a few of the posts in a thread. If I go to IE7, I can suddenly see more, even while not logged in! Speaking of logging in, sometimes (depending on where I go) I suddenly get logged out... which is really helpful, as you can imagine.
I wish I had all the time in the world to make post after post about every bug I've run into on these forums, but suffice to say- they really need an overhaul. Considering how good something like EW is at making good websites, the Expression forums make it look terrible. I really appreciate the support you guys give, but I really don't like coming to these forums.
Can you be more specific about what doesn't work or could work better with quoting (I quoted above) or the code editor? We had an issue with white space in the code editor that was recently fixed. I'm not aware of other issues.
Getting logged out. I haven't heard anyone else report this issue, but this sounds really bad. If you or anyone else reading this thread is seeing this issue as well, please start a new thread in the bugs forum, even if it's not consistent and you don't know what the repro is. I want to know if this is a one-off case, or if more than one person is seeing this.
Thanks,
-Andrew
Forums Product Planner, Andrew.Brenner at Microsoft.com
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